Global Shortage of seafarers.

[Midge]

https://www.bimco.org/~/media/News/2...ary_Final.ashx

[Chiefy]

*yawn* again?

Shortage of cheap, easy to bully 3rd world seafarers.......that's it

[Midge]

*yawn* again?

Shortage of cheap, easy to bully 3rd world seafarers.......that's it

Seems to be doesn't it!

[Matt247]

So is a shortage of more experienced officers?

[YoungMariner]

So is a shortage of more experienced officers?

Not even that, just a shortage of 'cheap' officers.

[Midge]

So is a shortage of more experienced officers?

Yes I think so there have been other UK reports before and those cited lots of retiring senior officers. If you look at the jobs advertised with different recruiters that's where the vacancies seem to be, Chiefs and masters mainly. Or cooks always seem to be jobs for cooks!

[Matt247]

Also I think there is concern a few years down the track for experienced deck offices to come ashore for various shipping jobs

[endure]

Yes I think so there have been other UK reports before and those cited lots of retiring senior officers. If you look at the jobs advertised with different recruiters that's where the vacancies seem to be, Chiefs and masters mainly. Or cooks always seem to be jobs for cooks!

I don't know what the rule are nowadays but in my time a ship couldn't sail unless a cook and a radio officer were signed on articles in their own rank.

The deckies and clankies could be signed on as anything as long as they had the right tickets

Another piece of ancient marine trivia

[marlinspike]

*yawn* again?

Shortage of cheap, easy to bully 3rd world seafarers.......that's it

Yup, they will be short of people who will work on ITF wages at best, which is still **** all. You could only live of ITF wages if you lived in a corrugated iron house an were happy to die before the age of 40. Most cheap employers don't even pay ITF as there is zero obligation to do so.